Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Joseph Pennacchio
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Establishes identification guidelines and record-keeping requirements for notaries public. *
Requires managed care plans to allow any clinical laboratory to participate in provider network.
In committee28
Makes certain requirements concerning downhill skiing.
Creates matching grant program in DCA to assist counties in retrofitting county parks to enhance usage by handicapped children; approprates $525,000.
Establishes a grant program in the Department of Human Services to provide start-up funding for the creation of after-school programs; appropriates $1,500,000.
Appropriates $75,000 in tobacco settlement funds for grant to Screen for Life of Morris County.
Appropriates $1,055,000 to Rutgers-Camden College of Arts & Sciences Department of Nursing to expand facilities.
Requires the State Auditor to audit school districts which receive State aid for school facilities projects.
Provides increase in cash assistance benefits as the result of the birth of a child under Work First New Jersey program.
Codifies "Homeowner for Permanency Demonstration Program" in HMFA and makes permanent.
Provides for reimbursement for health care services performed under certain circumstances.
Requires retailers of customized home improvement products to offer payment plans.
Requires that NJ FamilyCare Program cover pediatric medical day care services for all children covered by program.
Reduces polling place hours for certain elections.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.5 million to dredge Greenwood Lake in Passaic county.
Specifies policy governing provision by State registrar of certified copies and certifications of vital records to applicants.
Requires flags of US and NJ to be displayed at or near major highway entrances to the State.
Waives fee for volunteers and affiliates of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America to obtain State and national criminal history record background checks.
Excludes certain federal employee retirement fund contributions from gross income under the gross income tax.
Provides for recoupling of the computation of the New Jersey estate tax in accord with the federal estate tax.
Eliminates honorarium paid to State poet laureate.
Requires prior legislative approval of certain contracts and expenditures of New Jersey Redevelopment Authority.
Requires quarterly reports to the Legislature on Governor's use of State helicopter and prohibits the use thereof for personal and political events.
Requires that executive director of Board of Pharmacy be registered pharmacist.
Directs the Commissioner of Human Services to establish staffing level ratios for DYFS caseworkers; appropriates $12,000,000.
Requires applicants for school board employment and school bus driver to be notified of criminal history record check results within 60 days.
Requires DOE to make certain determinations concerning the provision of educational services to a child residing in a domestic violence shelter and modifies calculation of tuition under certain circumstances.
Removes income limit for eligibility to receive homestead property tax reimbursement.
Discontinues use of phrase "usual, customary and reasonable" or other words of similar import, on health insurance policies, contracts or related forms.
Increases handicapped parking education and fines for unlawfully parking in handicapped space; requires DMV to issue stickers for handicapped placards and license plates when renewed every three years.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Requires law enforcement officers and DMV to notify U.S. Department of State when persons with diplomatic immunity are involved in certain traffic incidents.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Revises investment requirements for charitable gift annuity reserves.
Designates State office building in Asbury Park as "Thomas S. Smith, Sr. State Office Building."
Increases criminal and civil penalties for certain animal cruelty offenses; and increases penalty for certain repeat offenders.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses. *
"Danielle's Law"; requires certain staff working with persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury to call 911 emergency telephone service in life-threatening emergencies.
Passed the General Assembly · 10
Permits minor to consent to medical care or treatment for HIV infection or AIDS.
Adds leader of firearms trafficking network and weapons training for illegal activities to RICO statute. *
Permits a school district to use certain funds to establish a scholarship foundation.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer information theft.
Authorizes actions for damages for computer embezzlement.
Revises the law concerning hazing; upgrades criminal penalties, provides certain immunities, creates civil offense and requires written policies.
Requires DHSS to send Senior Gold application to certain PAAD beneficiaries.
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Provides that assisted living resident's security deposit is refundable if resident leaves facility. *
Permits certain pharmacies to be designated as off-site institutional pharmacies.
Out of committee · 29
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives. *
Establishes new method of establishing financial liability for patients in psychiatric facilities and eliminates financial liability of certain family members. *
Permits municipalities to offer prescription drug benefit to certain retired volunteer firefighters and other emergency aid volunteers.
Establishes defibrillator grant program in DCA.
Provides temporary local budget cap exceptions and school district budget cap adjustments for certain insurance costs and security and public safety costs. *
Provides for certification for emergency medical technicians to administer epinephrine.
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers. *
Appropriates $11.05 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern New Jersey.
Allows certain juvenile offenders to be placed in county jail.
Appropriates $28,820,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $18,725,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Appropriates $11,118,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Exempts election board work on election day from calculation of unemployment benefits.
Authorizes a municipal court to impose certain sanctions on children with a pattern of repeated unauthorized absences from school. *
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Makes various changes to the automobile insurance laws; consolidates administrative functions relative to automobile insurance; provides for insurance fraud reforms. *
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing.
Requires Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to use transported remains of victims of September 11, 2001 from World Trade Center in a memorial.
Directs DOE to develop guidelines for the teaching of child victimization prevention techniques for use by districts to establish comprehensive programs.
Requires breath or blood test of drivers in fatal accidents. *
Revises wills and estates.
Releases certain purchasers of public property from reverter clause under certain circumstances.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Appropriates $14,548,000 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for farmland preservation purposes.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Provides victim of sexual assault with opportunity to consult with prosecutor on plea negotiations.
Appropriates $6,036,777 from the "Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants for certain historic preservation projects.
Appropriates $51,282,300 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," and appropriates or reappropriates certain other moneys, for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in "urban aid," densely or highly populat
Appropriates $12,377,500 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for local government open space acquisition and park development projects in northern NJ.
In committee · 62
Creates Youth Employment and After School Incentive Pilot Program; appropriates $25,000.
Supplemental appropriation of $19 million from Tobacco Settlement Fund to DHSS for pediatric cancer treatment and research.
Concerns basic skills training.
Provides for a mandatory minimum term without eligibility of parole for sexual assault.
Amends the statutes concerning child custody in cases involving domestic violence and in cases involving the murder of one parent by another.
Appropriates $2 million to DHS for grants to Regional Child Abuse Treatment Centers.
Establishes assessment and treatment services program in DHS; appropriates $1 million.
Requires confidentiality of location of domestic violence shelters; imposes civil penalty for knowing disclosure.
Supplemental appropriation of $2.2 million to DHS for domestic violence programs.
Supplemental appropriation of $250,000 to DLPS for high-technology crime investigations to protect children against Internet crime.
Permits a tax deduction under the New Jersey gross income tax for taxpayers who operate or maintain for their employees a licensed child care center or who have paid the cost of outside child care.
Provides a corporation business tax credit for day care center support benefiting children of employees.
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Requires surcharge for passenger restraint violation; establishes Child Safety Seat Distribution Program Fund.
Establishes the "Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fund," appropriates $100,000.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Exempts State-chartered credit unions from sales and use tax.
Provides credit under gross income tax and corporation business tax for certain costs of rehabilitating historic properties.
Authorizes State departments to establish dispute mediation offices to resolve land use conflict, coordinate permit applications.
Establishes New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing; appropriates $1,200,000.
Directs State acquisition of Troy Meadows Natural Area, Morris County, for recreation and conservation purposes.
Requires text of model codes to be reprinted in State regulations rather than incorporated by reference.
Establishes subsidized guardianship program in DHS.
Concerns public works subcontractors.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Concerns treatment of and penalties for certain truant and incorrigible pupils.
Establishes low interest mortage program in HMFA for volunteer fire and rescue squad members.
Allows corporation business tax and gross income tax credits for contributions to certain entities providing educational scholarships to low-income children in New Jersey; provides an Educational Option Act.
Allows gross income tax credits for certain dependent educational expenses; provides a Parental Control and Involvement Act.
Allows certain individuals and private small business employers to purchase SHBP coverage.
Provides single sales fraction for corporation business tax income allocation formula, eliminates "regular place of business" requirement to allocate less than 100% of income to New Jersey, provides airline-specific sales fraction.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
"Ban on Trafficking in Baby Body Parts Act."
"Women's Right to Know Act."
Prohibits human cloning.
Adds two members to Greenwood Lake Commission.
Prohibits alternate members of planning boards from voting on applications for variance relief in lieu of disqualified Class I or Class III members.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Protects property record cards maintained by tax assessors from public disclosure.
Designates September 11 in each year as "Red, White, and Blue Ribbon Day" in honor of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Requires that all emergency departments have necessary pediatric equipment available.
Exempts qualified investment clubs from certain partnership fee and payment requirements.
Establishes mandatory minimum terms of imprisionment without parole eligibility for crimes of criminal sexual contact committed against children.
Upgrades penalties for certain crimes involving children under 16 years of age.
Provides for mandatory life imprisonment for certain sexual assaults upon a minor.
Allows Governor to appoint poet laureate who will serve at pleasure of Governor.
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Law and Public Safety to establish a public awareness campaign regarding child passenger restraint systems.
Protects certain compliant municipalities from builder's remedy under "Fair Housing Act" pending readoption of methodologies, criteria and guidelines.
Decreases and eliminates certain fees and penalties.
Authorizes issuance of $400,000,000 in general obligation bonds for various Department of Human Services purposes; appropriates $5,000.
Prohibits certain contributions by certain entities and individuals doing business with counties or municipalities; limits amount of contribution by principals and officers of such entities.
"New Jersey Abortion Statistical Data Law."
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Imposes financial liability on parents for certain vandalism and other deliberate property damage caused by their minor children.
Prohibits contributions by certain entities doing business with State; limits amount of contributions by principals and officers of such entities.
Restricts expenditure of State appropriated funds for cabinet officers' chauffeur driven limousines.
The "Dam, Lake, Stream, and Wastewater Treatment Project Bond Act of 2003," authorizes bonds for $200,000,000 and appropriates $5,000.
Requires annual written authorization of payroll deductions for political contributions.
Establishes the crime of assault by animal.
Removes tolls from the Garden State Parkway.
Concerns Turnpike Authority's contracts for towing.
Allows a corporation business taxpayer that dissolves and completely liquidates during the 2002-2003 suspension of net operating loss deductions to use that deduction.